Thematic Rabbits Trivia

1. LITERATURE - In the beloved 'Peter Rabbit' storybooks, what was the name of the gardener who tried to keep the bunnies away from his vegetables?

From Quiz A Hare-Raising Quiz

Answer: McGregor

The elderly Scotsman Mr. McGregor first appeared in 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' (1902), and he made his last appearance in 'The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies' (1909). The protagonist in Beatrix Potter's series is of course the mischievous Peter Rabbit, who appeared with his siblings Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail. Beatrix Potter got the idea for Peter Rabbit from one of her own pet rabbits. The author based her illustrations, charming as they are, on anatomical studies of rabbits, which she conducted on her own rabbits after they died. Potter invented Peter Rabbit in a letter written to cheer up a sick child named Noel Moore, the 5-year-old son of Annie Carter Moore, her friend and former governess. The first Peter Rabbit book was self-published, because publishers wanted a full-sized book while she wanted to make the book small for small hands (and small pocketbooks). After her first printing of 250 copies sold out, however, she was able to find a publisher to agree to her terms!

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Answer: Jefferson Airplane

"White Rabbit" was a song from the 1967 Jefferson Airplane album "Surrealistic Pillow". While there are obvious references to "Alice in Wonderland" in the lyrics, the track is undoubtedly about hallucinating due to LSD.

From Quiz Hot Crossed Bunnies

Answer: Bopping him on the head

According to the old poem, Little Bunny Foo Foo hopped through the forest until he came upon some field mice and proceeded to bop them on the head without any real rhyme or reason. After a scolding from a fairy, Bunny Foo Foo seemed to be let off with a warning and, presumably, a lesson about abuse in the animal kingdom. But alas! The tables have turned-- someone is bopping Little Bunny Foo Foo and it's not at all appreciated. The origin of the song is unknown but it has been used as a moral tale for decades. Evidently, someone took it a step too far.

From Quiz The Year of The Rabbit

Answer: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1865, this book has remained popular with children and adults. Lewis Carroll, real name Charles Dodgson, was a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church College, Oxford. It is widely accepted that 'Alice' is based on Alice Liddell, daughter of Dean Liddell. Dodgson had a close friendship with the family and often took their children on outings on the river. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was followed by "Alice Through the Looking Glass" as well as "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky".

From Quiz A Hare-Raising Quiz

Answer: JoJo Rabbit

Jojo "Rabbit" Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) is a 10-year-old pro-fascist boy whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler (or at least how he childishly conceives of him). Jojo's world is turned upside down when he discovers that his mother Rosie (Scarlet Johansson), is hiding Jewish teenager Elsa Korr (Thomasin McKenzie) in the attic. A mixed-race actor-comedian-filmmaker from New Zealand, Taika Waititi wrote, directed, and co-produced the the 2019 movie, and he played the fantastical Fuhrer on screen. Waititi was motivated to make Jojo Rabbit after he read that 41% of Americans and 66% of U.S. millennials had never heard of Auschwitz. "Comedy is very, very important weapon against bigotry and hate and intolerance," Waititi told journalist Katherine Schaffstall. "It's a great way of disarming bullies and poking enough holes in their belief system." 'JoJo Rabbit' earned many accolades for its crew. Waititi was the first person of Māori descent to win an Academy Award in a screenplay category, and the first indigenous person to be nominated for and win Best Adapted Screenplay. To add to the comic surrealness, the producers licensed German-language Beatles songs, and Paul Appengren received a Golden Reel Award from the Motion Picture Sound Editors society for his editing of the score. Mayes C. Rubeo won the Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Period Films. (She was also the first Latina to be nominated for an Oscar in costume design).

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Answer: Australia

"Rabbit Proof Fence" follows the fortunes of three young Aboriginal girls who follow the fence for some 1,500 miles to try and return to their home after being forcibly removed from their families. The real rabbit-proof fences in Western Australia stretch for over 2,000 miles.

From Quiz Hot Crossed Bunnies

Answer: Foot

The lucky rabbit's foot is a superstitious good luck charm dating thousands of years back to Europe and Asia though its true origin is unknown. Nowadays it's possible to find faux fur rabbits feet on keychains and the like, though these are often kitsch items. Several cultures and lore, including North American Indians, Celtic beliefs, and Chinese customs, talk about the rabbit's foot as being a charm under special circumstances though there's clearly something ill at play-- the cross rabbit certainly has the worst luck of them all. You can understand why, I'm sure.

From Quiz The Year of The Rabbit

Answer: Thumper

"Bambi" was released in 1942 and remains one of Disney's all time loved films. Thumper, the rabbit, is named for his habit of thumping his rear paw on the ground, and is one of the main stars of the film, befriending the young Bambi. The film received three Academy Award nominations, Best Sound, Best Song and Original Music Score.

From Quiz A Hare-Raising Quiz

Answer: East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, etc.)

In East Asian folklore, rather than a Man on the Moon, there is a Moon Rabbit or Moon Hare, pounding with a mortar and pestle. The Moon Hare originated in ancient Chinese folklore and spread throughout the Far East -- and it would have been a hare originally, not a rabbit, because rabbits were not introduced into the Far East until the development of the Silk Road network of trade routes. During the Han Dynasty, they called the mythical creature the Jade Hare, and sometimes "Jade Hare" served as a synonym for the Moon itself. In modern times the Moon Hare or nowadays Moon Rabbit remains an important part of East Asian culture, not just in China but throughout Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, etc. For example, the Japanese manga character Sailor Moon's alternate name is Usagi Tsukino, a play on "Tsuki no usagi", which means "Moon Rabbit" in Japanese. Moon Rabbit characters appear in comics in Korea and Vietnam as well. The Chinese named their lunar rover Yutu, meaning Jade Rabbit, which landed on the Moon in 2013. The Moon Rabbit has also been a part of Native American folklore, separate and apart from the Asian legends. (Cottontail rabbits are indigenous to North America.) Ancient Mayan art depicts a rabbit companion of the Moon Goddess. In Aztec mythology, the god Quetzalcoatl put the image of a rabbit on the moon to honor her for saving his life. The Cree also have a tale of a rabbit who wanted to ride the Moon and was taken there by a crane.

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Answer: South Dakota State

South Dakota State University is based in the city of Brookings. The school's sports teams are named after the type of hare commonly found in the region. SDSU is a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference for gridiron, and the Summit League for most other sports. Notable alumni include Superbowl-winning kicker Adam Vinatieri and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Langer.

From Quiz Hot Crossed Bunnies

Answer: White

Seen in the first chapters of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, the White Rabbit is late for a very important date. It turns out, he's late for serving the Queen of Hearts; he reappears late in the book when the titular Alice is placed on trial for the crime's she's committed in this topsy-turvy world. The White Rabbit has since become one of the most famous characters from the book and subsequent Disney film; Jefferson Airplane wrote a song called "White Rabbit" in 1967 based on the character and others from Carroll's work. But could you imagine being eternally late? The poor rabbit has every reason to be cross.

From Quiz The Year of The Rabbit

Answer: Fatal Attraction

Released in 1987, and starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, this film is certainly a warning against one night stands. Glenn Close stalks Michael Douglas and his family, becoming more and more deranged and obsessed, to the point of killing the family's pet rabbit and leaving it boiling on the stove. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards.

From Quiz A Hare-Raising Quiz

Answer: An open shot that should be easily made

In several sports, a bunny is any undefended shot or goal that a competent athlete can easily make, though it's most often used in basketball. It's typically a shot close to the basket, like a layup or a dunk, when the player has a break-away (also called a fast break), which occurs when the player obtains the ball and moves quickly past all opponents to reach the vulnerable basket. This kind of shot is also called a snowbird. In skiing, a bunny slope is a nice, gentle incline designed for novice or inexperienced skiers -- also called a bunny hill. In cricket, when a batter keeps being dismissed by the same bowler, that batter is said to be the bowler's bunny.

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Answer: Mel Blanc

Bugs Bunny (Is he a rabbit or a hare? Nobody really knows!) made his debut in the 1940 short film "A Wild Hare". Blanc provided Bugs' voice from his debut until his (Mel's) death in 1989.

From Quiz Hot Crossed Bunnies

Answer: Because Trix are for kids

Sometimes it's just unfair, am I right bunnies? International commercials for the General Mills/Nestle breakfast cereal Trix is known for featuring a white bunny dressed in a disguise attempting to obtain a box of Trix cereal for his own consumption. It never seems to work; the bunny is told at the last moment that he can't have any-- "Trix are for kids!" Trix cereal consists of colourful corn puffs, kind of like Kellogg's Corn Pops cereal. It would probably be unsafe to feed them to an actual bunny. It doesn't make it any better for the bunnies though.

From Quiz The Year of The Rabbit

Answer: German Settlers

The Easter bunny appears to have been introduced by German settlers coming into the Pennsylvania Dutch area in the 1700s. They brought the tradition with them from the Alsace and Upper Rhineland areas. Children would build bright nests, often made out of bonnets or caps, in their homes and if they had been good the Easter bunny would fill these with brightly coloured eggs. These were originally dyed or painted chicken eggs. The first commercial Easter eggs did not appear until the early 1800s.

From Quiz A Hare-Raising Quiz

Answer: to produce something unexpectedly

If you produce something surprising, especially in a way that has no obvious explanation, as if done by magic, someone might say, "You've just pulled a rabbit of your hat!". The expression comes from the clichéd magician's trick of pulling a live rabbit out of an apparently empty top hat. Although tricks of that sort are ancient, the term has transferred to other surprises only since 1930s! In the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon series, Bullwinkle would ask Rocky, "Want to watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat" and then proceed to pull out something absurd or dangerous. (It's funnier when you see it on screen.) To proliferate exponentially or reproduce rapidly is to "breed like rabbits". To create a situation having both terrible and pleasant aspects, with more of the former, is to "make a horse and rabbit stew". To be caught, especially against one's will, in a complex or chaotic journey or problem that becomes even more so as it unfolds is to "go down the rabbit hole" (a reference to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. Poor little Alice followed the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, and the rest is history).

From Quiz The Year of The Rabbit

Answer: Run Rabbit Run

Written by Noel Gay for his musical "The Little Dog Laughed" this song was made popular by Flanagan and Allen who, during World War II, changed the lyrics to "Run Adolf, Run Adolf, Run Run Run" to poke fun at Hitler. When Jimmy Perry and David Croft started writing "Dad's Army" back in 1968 they selected it as the theme song as it seemed to sum up the home spun, under-equipped yet still ready to fight attitude of the Home Guard.

From Quiz Hot Crossed Bunnies

Answer: Leopold Stokowski

The line was based on one previously said by Groucho Marx years before though it carried on through numerous Looney Tunes sketches including Bugs. In the sketch "Long-Haired Hare", Bugs attempted to be his normal, loud self until an opera singer, living and practicing his craft at a residence nearby, decided to put an end to Bugs' noisy instrument playing. This led to a final battle onstage at the Hollywood Bowl in which Bugs, in the guise of Leopold Stokowski ("It's Leopold!"), seemingly won the battle. It wasn't Bugs' only foray into opera, either. In "What's Opera, Doc?", he and Elmer Fudd reenacted the operas of Wagner. No one could forget "Kill the wabbit", could they? It happened again in "Rabbit of Seville". Just more proof that you shouldn't make a bunny cross.

From Quiz The Year of The Rabbit

Answer: Chas and Dave

Charles Hodges and Dave Peacock were both well known and respected session musicians before deciding to become performers in their own right. Their distinctive brand of music, known as 'Rockney', is a mix of pub sing-a-long, music hall comedy and rock and roll. "Rabbit", released in 1980, is a complaint about the continued talking of the singer's girl friend. Dave Peacock is also a renowned builder and restorer of Romany caravans.

From Quiz A Hare-Raising Quiz

Answer: Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project (1942-45) was a top-secret U.S. military-scientific project that produced the first atomic bombs. The Eldorado Mine at Port Radium, Northwest Territories was an important source of uranium ore. Native people, including Hare, transported radioactive ore to Ontario and the USA for processing. They used cloth sacks, and radiation poisoning devastated some of their communities. The people who called themselves Kawchottine or K'ahsho Got'ine originally lived in earth lodges near the Great Bear Lake in the sub-Arctic region of the Northwest Territories of Canada. The name Kawchottine means "People of Great Hares", for snowshoe hares were an important source of food and supplemented a diet of fish, roots, berries, and other plants. (So the English appellation, Hare or Hareskin Indians, was at least derived from their own name). Alexander Mackenzie was the first European to reach Kawchottine country in 1789. Outside contact increased when the Hudson's Bay Company build Fort Good Hope in 1804 on Mackenzie River near Great Bear River. In ensuing decades, some Hare merged with Dogrib and Slavey peoples around Great Bear Lake, becoming known as Sahtú Dene, or Bear Lake Indians. The modern Sahtú Region also includes Fort Good Hope, Norman Range, and Kelly Lake. Some 1,000 Hare descendants were living in the early 21st century.

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Answer: Joel Chandler Harris

Harris, from Georgia, USA, wrote his "Uncle Remus" stories in the late 19th/ early 20th centuries. Bre'r rabbit is the main protagonist, with Bre'r Fox and Bre'r Wolf being the main antagonists.

From Quiz Hot Crossed Bunnies

Answer: He fell asleep

In the famous Aesop fable "The Tortoise and the Hare", the two animals head out on a race against one another. Although the hare takes an obvious early lead, the race ends in an upset as the hare gets too cocky, falls asleep on a tree stump, and allows the tortoise to pull ahead to win the race. The moral of the story: physical prowess does not make a winner. Disney release a cartoon about this fable in 1935. Sometimes, rabbits are cross with their own choices. This one isn't even our fault, but there you have it!

From Quiz The Year of The Rabbit

Answer: Portland

This superstition is several centuries old, and is thought to come from stone quarriers and miners who saw rabbits running from their holes just before a collapse or cave in, and blamed their burrowing activities for weakening the ground. Instead of rabbits the locals often refer to 'underground mutton' or 'bunnies' instead. When the film "Wallace and Grommit and the Curse of the Were Rabbit" was released a special batch of posters was produced for Portland to avoid offending local sensitivities. Portland is part of the Dorset Jurassic coastline and some of the finest dinosaur age fossils have been found embedded in the world famous Portland stone.

From Quiz Rabbit Stew

Answer: Form

A form is a type of flattened nest of grass. Hares do not burrow underground, unlike rabbits. A drey is the home of a squirrel; a sett is a badger's home; and a lodge is the home of a beaver.

From Quiz Hot Crossed Bunnies

Answer: Beats a drum

The Energizer Bunny was introduced as the mascot for Energizer batteries in the late 1980s appearing on TV in hundreds of advertizements. The motto seems to be that he just "keeps going and going and going and going..." It seems like a lot of work for a poor rabbit. The Energizer Bunny is never seen without a pair of sunglasses and a large drum which on which he keeps a beat, perhaps until the end of time (or until his batteries eventually run out). Internationally, Duracell (which also sells batteries in North American markets) also uses a pink bunny as a mascot. Well of course he's cross-- sometimes you've gotta give a bunny a break. Imagine the headache...

From Quiz The Year of The Rabbit

Answer: Quetzalcoatl

The legend says that when Quetzalcoatl was living on earth as a man he was on a journey and thought he would die because he had no food or water. A rabbit offered itself to him to save his life, and in gratitude he lifted it up to the moon, where its image became fixed for all to see. A legend of a moon rabbit also appears in China, Japan, India and Buddhism.

From Quiz Rabbit Stew

Answer: James Stewart

"Harvey" was a 1950 film directed by Henry Koster, and takes its title from the imaginary 6 ft 3.5 in tall rabbit seen or heard only by Elwood P. Dowd, played by James Stewart.

From Quiz Hot Crossed Bunnies

Answer: Roger Rabbit

"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" starred Bob Hoskins as a human detective and the voice talents of Charles Fleischer as the titular Roger Rabbit. Based on the book "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" written in 1981, the movie involved the murder of an influential cartoon city overseer and the subsequent (and zany) mystery behind the death and missing will. Roger and Detective Eddie Valiant teamed up to solve the case. The movie features several characters from Warner Bros. and Disney films and features one of the only scenes ever made containing both Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny. But I mean wrongful accusal; what bunny wouldn't be cross?

From Quiz The Year of The Rabbit

Answer: John Updike

"Rabbit is Rich" is the third book in John Updike's series that started with "Rabbit Run" in 1960. Featuring Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom and his attempts to come to grips with life from young adulthood to death, they have received much critical acclaim. "Rabbit is Rich" and and "Rabbit at Rest" both received the Pulitzer Prize.

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